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March 4, 1994
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Elaine Ellis, Assistant Director
VISITING FACULTY NAMED AT CARLETON FOR SPRING TERM 1994
Northfield, Minn. — Carleton College announced the following visiting
faculty appointments for spring term 1994:
John B. Davidson, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Theater Arts, is a playwright and composer with dozens of plays and
musicals to his credit. Davidson was co-founder and from 1964-67
served as managing director of the Minneapolis Children's Theatre.
His more recent works include a musical tragedy about a 1920 lynching
in Duluth, Minn, titled "The Last Minstral Show" produced at St.
Paul's Penumbra Theater in 1992, and "Victoria's Christmas," a musical
children's play about an evening in the life of Queen Victoria,
produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in 1993. Davidson
received his B.A. degree in speech from the University of Minnesota,
where he also did graduate work in theater.
Matthew Emerson, visiting assistant professor of history, is an
anthropologist interested in the history and archaeology of American
colonial period settlements. During 1980-86, he directed
archaeological excavations at Flowerdew Hundred, a 17th-century
plantation in Virginia. His current writing is focused on the
interaction and development of Native, Afro- and Euro-American
cultures in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Emerson received his B.A.
degree with honors in anthropology from Brown University and his M.A.
and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pamela K. Jensen, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Political Science, has taught political science at Kenyon College in
Gambier, Ohio since 1980. Jensen earned her A.B. degree in political
science from Kent State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political
philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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March 4, 1994
Sp86
Elaine Ellis, Assistant Director
VISITING FACULTY NAMED AT CARLETON FOR SPRING TERM 1994
Northfield, Minn. — Carleton College announced the following visiting
faculty appointments for spring term 1994:
John B. Davidson, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Theater Arts, is a playwright and composer with dozens of plays and
musicals to his credit. Davidson was co-founder and from 1964-67
served as managing director of the Minneapolis Children's Theatre.
His more recent works include a musical tragedy about a 1920 lynching
in Duluth, Minn, titled "The Last Minstral Show" produced at St.
Paul's Penumbra Theater in 1992, and "Victoria's Christmas," a musical
children's play about an evening in the life of Queen Victoria,
produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in 1993. Davidson
received his B.A. degree in speech from the University of Minnesota,
where he also did graduate work in theater.
Matthew Emerson, visiting assistant professor of history, is an
anthropologist interested in the history and archaeology of American
colonial period settlements. During 1980-86, he directed
archaeological excavations at Flowerdew Hundred, a 17th-century
plantation in Virginia. His current writing is focused on the
interaction and development of Native, Afro- and Euro-American
cultures in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Emerson received his B.A.
degree with honors in anthropology from Brown University and his M.A.
and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pamela K. Jensen, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Political Science, has taught political science at Kenyon College in
Gambier, Ohio since 1980. Jensen earned her A.B. degree in political
science from Kent State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political
philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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